drug trafficking

Leprosy Patient Arrested for Trafficking Meth

Kalaupapa's youngest Hansen's disease patient Norbert K. Palea has been charged with attempting to smuggle crystal meth onto the island of Molokai from Honolulu while on a state-sponsored visit.

Palea, who arrived at Honolulu airport in a state car, paid $24 to ship a box to the island of Molokai where Kalaupapa is situated. According to the report, 18 grams of methamphetamine were found inside the box.

    Death squads act with impunity in Mexico

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    After the brutal massacre of 16 youngsters between the age of 15 and 20 last week in Ciudad Juarez, residents of the most heavily militarised city in Mexico are asking the authorities how this could happen. One distraught citizen said in a television interview “We don’t have anyone to defend us or look after us, we pay taxes for all the police and military to come to the city but they are only decoration.” As of march 2009 there were 7500 federal police and soldiers in Juarez, the city with the highest murder rate in the world.

      India's rising exports: Ketamine

      India has become a major ketamine source for South East Asian countries, with the number and quantity of seizures rising. Ketamine, while restricted for export, is not banned in India as in many of the countries it supplies. Ketamine does not as yet fall under the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, under which offences can lead to a 10-year jail sentence.

        Rising ketamine export from India

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        Chennai has emerged as a major transit point for the illegal export of ketamine to South East Asia, with around 100kg of the substance having been seized at Chennai airport in the past months alone. This Indian news report outlines current legal pitfalls as the number of seizures has doubled over the past year.

          A drug dealer tried to hide his identity altering his fingerprints

          An American drug dealer has been condemned to life imprisonment for international drug trafficking and to 240 months for money laundering related to his activities.

          William Wallace Keegan, 62 years old, of Palm Harbor, Florida, was sentenced for being involved in international drug trafficking for more than 30 years. The man escaped capture for so long because he had all 10 of his fingers surgically altered in order to hide his true identity.

            Traffickers use Western Africa to bring cocaine to Europe

            The burned debris of a Boeing cargo plane has recently been discovered in Mali, West Africa. It is not clear the origins of the plane but Colombian and Venezuelan air traffic controllers reported “strange behaviour” from a similar Boeing cargo plane that eventually went missing in south west Venezuela. Traces of cocaine among the remains of the plane suggest that large aircrafts are increasingly being used to smuggle drugs and even weapons to the region from South America.

              A man has been detained allegedly trying to smuggle cannabis into Mexico

              A man has been arrested after allegedly trying to smuggle 23 kilos of marijuana, worth about £30,000, into Mexico from the United States. Officers from US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) arrested James Williams on October 25th after inspecting his vehicle and discovering the illicit drug. The discovery is unusual as it does not fit in with the usual pattern of drugs being smuggled into the US while high powered weaponry and US dollars are smuggled back into Mexico.

                Opium cultivation increasing in India

                An increase in illegal opium cultivation has brought new prosperity to parts of the Arunachal Pradesh region in eastern India. However this source of new wealth has also left a trail of addiction in its wake.

                  Friends and enemies

                  Submitted by Big on Wed, 08/04/2009 - 04:10

                  Well who can help us? Many of you won’t be interested in this shit but believe me you will wish you had been when you are reduced to pimping or some other half arsed business. There won’t be much cash to splash when the girls have got easy access to treatment or gear on prescription, let me tell you. So it is time you all took an interest.

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